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Camera Gimbal CH6 mixing issue

Hi,

I'm having some trouble mixing CH6 in with the tilt for the camera mount.

When I select the input channel to 6, it goes crazy witht the travel being extreme.

If I pass the middle point it goes fully in that direction and it very twitchy jittering ar

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Ballistic chute

Hi,

Just flight testing my ballistic chute and was wondering if anyone else has done one and has covered the different scenarios?

I'm cutting all the ESC PWM signals and ejecting mine out of the back on the following conditions:

Zero G for 200ms and ini

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ArduCopter V2.8.1, 3DR Radio and HK GCS

Hi,

I've looked through and don't see that my issue has been addressed.

I'm using the 3DR Radio modules with the Ardupilot Mega 2.5 and have had no issues connecting to the Mission Planner (57600).

For some reason I can't seem to get it to work with HK'

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Only getting warnings on MinimOSD

Hi,

I've recently installed a MinimOSD which I've set up and flashed twice, it detects the heartbeats and looks ok for a few seconds then just puts up and overspeed warning.

I seem to be able to cycle through three warnings including overspeed and batt

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Alt_Hold off and it falls from the sky!

Hi,

Alt_Hold with the EZ0 worked really well right up until the point where I turned it back to Stabilize mode where all rotors stopped rotating and my Hexcopter fell to the ground...

For some reason the telemetry log seems to stop playing and freezes

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Video flickering in black and white

I have a KONIG USB video grabber which works really nicely with the supplied app 'MyTV'.

For some reason when I try to display the feed in the AMP it flickers at a rate of about once every 800ms or so and is in black and white, if I leave MyTV open th

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Secondary voltage/current sensor

Hi,

This may be a silly question but I seem to be having trouble finding where you enable the second voltage/current input in the mission planner, I am running the latest arducopter (Multirotor) and AMP 1.0

I was expecting it to detect the voltage and

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Motors won't arm

Hi,

I'm trying to get my motors to arm but they won't, I am running a Joystic (No Radio) and althouh the joystick is enabled and I can see the outputs moving I can't seem to get it to arm..

I have noticed that the travel does not (in the planner) go fu

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Control via serial data

Hi,I'm putting a multicopter together and will be using the ardupilot mega 2 and the adrustation, I really would like to avoid having three separate RF systems e.g. Video, Telemetry and Control (PPM)..Can I easily use the serial data connection used

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